Category: Tools & Products releases
Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new releases.
#Perl DBD::Firebird fork progress
DBD::Firebird is registered in perl cpan’s module list and soon we will upload the first tar.gz release (when is considered stable enough)
Until then the module is hosted in github and can be used and tested :
Stefan has improved the Windows support also fixed many tests , here are some of the commit messages:
Improved support for MinGW, added support for ActivePerl, Removed some obsolete tests, All tests, now use testlib.pl and Test::More (except 60leaks.t)
Firebird connection module for #NodeJS is in the works
I am trying to develop Firebird connection module for NodeJS (http://nodejs.org/).
https://github.com/xdenser/node-firebird-libfbclient
I want to implement firebird events feature as it suits very well to NodeJS ideology.
And have some questions regarding events.
How to capture NATURAL SCAN statements in Firebird 2.5
This is easily done with the new Firebird 2.5 Trace API in combination with Upscene’s FB TraceManager product.
A short demonstration video is available HERE.
Firebird Data Wizard 11.1 released
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SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird Data Wizard 11.1, a powerful Windows GUI utility for Firebird data management. |
Firebird Data Wizard provides you with a number of easy-to-use wizards to convert any ADO-compatible database to the Firebird database, import data into
Firebird tables, export data from tables, views and queries to most popular file formats as well as generate data-driven ASP.NET pages for your Firebird database.
New version provides data import from any database accessible via ODBC driver or OLE DB provider, the insert-or-update data import mode, advanced Data Pump abilities, and some other new features.
There are also other useful things as well as versions for other DBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL, etc). Read full press release.
New firebird 3.0 snapshot uploaded to #ubuntu Maverick ppa
New snapshot of firebird 3.0 is uploaded from debian experimental for testing and here are some numbers compared with firebird 2.5.1
New firebird 3.0 , flamerobin snapshots uploaded to #Debian
New snapshot of firebird 3.0 is uploaded in debian experimental for testing .
Also there is a new upload for flamerobin in the experimental area
Habarisoft announces FireAlarm open source monitoring for the Firebird #RDBMS
Today Habarisoft announced the start of the FireAlarm project, a monitoring solution for the Open Source RDBMS Firebird.
FireAlarm checks Firebird servers for high load situations, caused by software failures or denial of service (DOS) attacks, and helps developers or database administrators to detect performance bottlenecks. It is written in the Java programming language and released as open source.
4 key distinctions of the new IBProvider v3.4 that make your applications faster
4 key distinctions of the new IBProvider v3.4 that make your applications faster:
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Please read details here: Firebird driver become faster
django-firebird switched for #django 1.2/1.3 support only in svn trunk
The django-firebird trunk was updated with new version. It supports django 1.2 and I hope what support the next 1.3 release too.
I was using this version on production web app and all work fine for
now.[ED:also firebirdsql.ro works ok with it]
The prior django-firebird implementation with support for django 1.1 was tagged
Please, feel free to check it out and report any issue.
Any feedback is wellcome.